Cultural, Spiritual And Psychosocial Health Assessment

Nursing is a practice which involves meeting and interacting with diverse patients each and every day. Nursing is crucial in the care of patients regardless the severity of the illness or other conditions. …

Introduction

The role of nurses is to assess the condition of the patient and thereafter take charge of the well being of the patient during recovery. Cultural, spiritual and psychosocial assessment of a patient occurs after the health assessment where the nurse determines the possible causes of the patient’s condition. If the situation is an emergency, little or no social assessment of the patient is carried out as the health assessment is always the first priority of the nurse and the doctors. During a health assessment, asking the patient of their past medical condition is the first thing that nurses must do so as to find any possibilities of a recurrent health condition or relation of the current illness to the previous ones. The patient’s health is more important than their background or beliefs. An example is pain assessment where the nurse determines the location and amount of pain then he or she can prescribe pain drugs. After treating an urgent condition, the nurses then conduct the other parts of their assessment which now includes the cultural, spiritual and psychosocial aspects. This only occurs after the patient is stable to conduct a conversation. ...

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